Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft

After a horrendous patch for Challenge Mode that introduced a lot of bugs, some have been fixed with patch 1 for this mode. I am no longer experiencing audio issues. The patch also improved the outfit quality which is good. I've still seen some people showing the bugs they've been experiencing in game so there's still more to be done, I will edit my review only after those fixes are made. Truthfully, I would still tell people to hold off on purchasing until all the rest of the bugs people logged have been sorted. UNLESS you play on patch 4, which is more stable. I am currently back on patch 4 and using that with the Tomb Raider Gold Edition mod installed (which I cannot recommend more!) I prefer the game with that mod, the changes they made are great - and I will be playing on that version from now on until the issues are sorted on the official game. I've loved these remasters, I would have said they were perfect but then 4-6 came out and kind of blew it out of the water. In an ideal world they'd have spent this year bringing them up to scratch with the 4-6 remasters in terms of quality, which is now highly unlikely as Saber have moved on. It's a huge shame, they wanted to update the game with patch 5 so we can blame Aspyr for stopping that. Overall the games are still good but Aspyr has been a big let down: they ended their contract with Saber and robbed us of the chance to see these games at their full potential, and then outsourced the Challenge Mode update which is what introduced the bugs! Hopefully they listen to the reviews and at least fix the mess they made with Challenge Mode.

FIX THE GAME!!! This was one of the best remasters I've played before Aspyr went and got rid of the brilliant original team behind this and hired a new one to ruin this with the unnecessary Challenge Mode -update.

I'm really bummed to hit a breaking point with this. I was having a lot of fun, but I just can't take the jank anymore. I personally despise tank controls. The tank controls are insufferable for me and I actively am not having a good time using them. I eventually switched to modern controls which was a huge step up for me and actually let me enjoy the game for a while, but ultimately the game is not designed with the modern controls option in mind. There hit a point in the fifth level were modern controls stopped being a reliable alternative. The only means I could find to successfully jump from one pillar to the next was to painstakingly use the walk function to align myself with the edge and then jump and grab, but even that didn't have a great success rate. Tank controls are the only way to go and unfortunately I'm not having fun learning them. I'd rather just do something else with my time. Really wish this remaster could have made the modern controls option a viable alternative.

DO NOT BUY CURRENTLY. gen AI and lazy, sloppy bug ridden patches have no place in this franchise.

March 12th update breaks more than it brings, please fix this.

Shoddy

A game loved by everyone, ruined in a single patch. Stop with AI slop, revert all of this. Hire Saber back, beg them to fix whatever the ♥♥♥♥ y'all did with this terrible patch.